Christian Heilmann

Help making the fourth industrial revolution less scary

September 26th, 2016

Last week I spent in Germany at an event sponsored by the government agency for unemployment covering the issue of digitalisation of the job market and the subsequential loss of jobs. When the agency approached me to give a keynote on the upcoming “fourth industrial revolution” and what machine learning and artificial intelligence means for […]

What does a developer evangelist/advocate do?

August 29th, 2016

Today I was asked to define the role of a developer evangelist in my company for a slide deck to be shown at hiring events and university outreach. This was a good opportunity to make a list of all the tasks we have to do in this job and why we do them. It might […]

New blog design – I let the browser do most of the work…

August 23rd, 2016

Unless you are reading the RSS feed or the AMP version of this blog, you’ll see that some things changed here. Last week I spent an hour redesigning this blog from scrarch. No, I didn’t move to another platform (WordPress does the job for me so far), but I fixed a few issues that annoyed […]

Better keyboard navigation with progressive enhancement

August 15th, 2016

When building interfaces, it is important to also consider those who can only use a keyboard to use your products. This is a basic accessibility need, and in most cases it isn’t hard to allow for a basic keyboard access. It means first and foremost using keyboard accessible elements for interaction: anchors with a valid […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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